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I gather DS Audio is not Carplay compatible, but is there any way for the standard iphone music player to see the synology audio files (either manually downloaded somehow, or those downloaded by ds audio directly)? That way we could play those through Carplay

This is really important for vehicle safety going forwards. It basically means i have to drop using DS audio to operate my new car. This is not some feature that may or not be required - it's essential!!!

gggg wrote:I gather DS Audio is not Carplay compatible, but is there any way for the standard iphone music player to see the synology audio files (either manually downloaded somehow, or those downloaded by ds audio directly)? That way we could play those through Carplay

Can't you just play vie the Bluetooth media on your car until this is resolved? I have Android Auto, but it requires a physical connection (my car doesn't have wifi hotspot) so for short trips its easier to just play the DS Audio via the Bluetooth media of the car.

I have created an online petition to motivate Synology to add CarPlay support for DS audio. Please subscribe. Maybe the users are heard and Synology will implement support for it.Petition "Support for Apple CarPlay in Synology DS Audio iOS App" at Change.orghttps://www.change.org/p/synology-suppo ... io-ios-app

I’m happy to sign it, but I’ve since discovered that Apple won’t allow competing parties to support CarPlay.

So for example, NAVIGON and Tom Tom are not allowed to support CarPlay as it is in competition with Apple maps.

If you jailbreak your phone there is an app which will mirror any app onto a CarPlay device from navigon to DS audio to YouTube. Touchscreen works but I keyboard fields don’t as far as I know. That’s your best bet.

My solution? I’m paying for Apple Music and using Apple Maps. Yep. They won.

as far as i can see there are only 3 other audio players compatible - Google Music, Amazon music, and Vox. As far as I can tell - Plex is the best placed NAS media provider to get their app approved but I think you'll be waiting forever and a day for DS audio to get approved. It's only a subsection of the plex app for example so would be classed as a whole new app to approve.

Plex itself would need to have it's functionality stripped down so no video would play while moving.

There are currently no other navigation options which would really suck if you were driving through europe and wanted to use your offline maps
If navigon and tom tom, and google maps are all still waiting despite this serious operational flaw, I think we might be waiting quite some time for Plex support, and probably forever for DS Audio. I don't think it'll be carplay compatible for _years_.

There is an immediate solution: Vox.

You'd need to find a way to sync your NAS music folder with the Vox unlimited cloud storage - not sure how you could do this but there's usually a way. And you'd need to pay the slightly ouchy monthly subscription for Vox, but this would then give you carplay access to all your flacs at "full" quality* in the car.

*please note that this would be entirely dependent on the quality of carplay implementation and the headunit. Some people have reported an improvement in audio quality when using bluetooth, instead of a wired connection. If it's quality you're after put your FLACs directly on the head unit and dump carplay.